Contact: Janet Lathrop
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University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Caption: Differences in timing of snsory development during the critical period of socialization in wolf and dog pups may help to explain why wolves are difficult to tame while dogs are not.
Credit: Kathryn Lord
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